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APRIL 21, 2011

My composting adventures all started about 9 years ago when our local Penn State Cooperative Extension office offered a free composting bin (the round one in the picture) when you attended their free composting seminar. I have a system going, but I am a laid back composter. So what did I learn at the seminar?

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Compost Composting Backyard Flowers and Plants 214

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MAY 10, 2011

Last year, I chronicled my box garden conversion from random planting to the more calculated method, known as Square Foot Gardening. Even though I amended the soil in my boxed garden with compost over the years, the majority of the soil was thick, heavy clay that made pulling root vegetables, like carrots, very difficult.

Gardening 147

Gardening Garden Compost Composting 147

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MARCH 13, 2012

You'll walk away with great information about this year's gardening trends, gardening techniques, and maybe even a plant or two. Garden nurseries are preparing for the upcoming season and are really trying to reel you in to their store to make your spring planting purchases. Thanks for reading. Garden Nurseries and Greenhouses.

Gardening 127

Gardening Garden Compost Composting 127

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APRIL 10, 2012

In place of wood chips, we buy leaf compost from our township. I also need to figure out what we are going to plant under our bay window. We have planted several things there and they have not survived. While plants in other areas of the landscape have flourished. Thanks for reading. and more WEEDS.

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Landscaping Cleaning Plants 2007 149

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APRIL 17, 2012

As you can see, it needed some attention: Some of the 'weeds' in the picuture is the mint that I naively planted 10 years ago when we built my garden box. Do yourself a favor and plant your mint in a container unless you want to spend your spare time yanking it from your garden. It is the most invasive plant known to man!

Gardening 127

Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants Cleaning 127

Coupons Do Work

JUNE 15, 2016

Also, fresh blueberries at this time too, is on sale for $1 to $2 less, thanks to it being summer in South America. Gardening: Plants, flowers, seeds, watering cans, plant food, soil, weed killers, mulch, compost buckets, water hoses. and BOGO at some shops such as Publix). June is here. Summer is here.

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